THE WOMAN’S PROFILE IN THE NOVEL SENHORA, BY JOSÉ DE ALENCAR

• Main Author: Mariana Thiengo
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná 2008-08-01
• Series: Travessias
• Subjects: ficção romântica; romantismo brasileiro; busca feminina; leitor concordante; leitor resistente.
• Online Access: http://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/travessias/article/view/3016

Making use of the distinction between feminine search, according to the patriarchal tradition, anti-feminine search, with an inversion of sexual roles, and feminist search, non patriarchal, the novel Senhora, by Jos de Alencar, is studied under the focus of the construction of identities, characterizing the search performed by the character Aurlia as feminine, according to the patriarchal narrative, instead of a feminist one, as it would be inferred from her arguing and non-submissive profile, which gives to her search an anti-feminine appearance, in a supposed exchange of roles that, in fact, occurs only outside of the character, once the contestation does not highlight the gender relations.